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Bonnie Lin

Venture & Impact Investor | Accelerating Trust in Creative Ecosystems

San Francisco, California

Education

Work Experience

COVEN

2024

  • CFO - Head of Investment & Development

    2024

    COVEN is a placemaking accelerator with a real estate impact fund supporting monumental art for social change. COVEN partners within the ecosystem to provide creators and doers at its heart with access to a robust talent pipeline, physical infrastructure, artist capital, and placement platforms that makes building and sharing powerful artworks of sidelined voices economically viable, scalable, and sustainable.

  • Advisor

    2023

  • Managing Director

    2014

    THE RAINMAKERS GLOBAL (TRG) provides strategic advisory and communications for organizations to achieve their mission of today and realize their vision for tomorrow by investing in innovation and impact at scale. TRG has been advising family offices, corporates, and governments on growth, innovation and transformation in the US and Asia Pacific since 2014. Our mission is to position humanity for a future of sustainable and equitable prosperity through collaborative leadership, action, and investment. We bridge global talent with local innovation ecosystems, combining financial, human and social capital to transform communities and economies through forward-thinking venture capital, impact investing, and technology-led economic development. STRATEGIC ADVISORY: - Corporates: Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) - Family Offices: Innovation & Impact Investment (I3) - Government: Technology-led Economic Development (TED) SPEAKING, FACILITATION & COACHING: - Change Leadership - Board Leadership & Innovation - Technology & Venture Capital - Impact Investing - Technology-led Economic Development - Startup Ecosystem Development - Strategic Engagement in Asia - Women in Leadership & Asset Allocation For more information, visit www.b2rainmakers.com

  • Board Trustee

    2020

    Advancing Social Change through Education The Fogarty Foundation is committed to ensuring that all young people in Western Australia have the opportunity to receive high quality education. We work across the spectrum of the community enabling high quality school leadership, supporting the delivery of the foundations of learning through to future ready skills and capabilities. Transformational Leaders: - UWA Fogarty Scholarships - ANU Fogarty Scholarships Future Ready Students: - Fogarty EDfutures - CoderDojo WA @ Curtin - Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research - Perkins Profs Excellence in Teaching: - Fogarty EdVance - TeachWell Intensive - UWA Success through Educational Excellence - ECU Fogarty Learning Centre, Scholarships & Prizes - Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation - The Smith Family Learning for Life Fund - The Smith Family Community Engagement - Sports Challenge Australia - Perth Festival Education Program - Fogarty Literary Award - ABNC Fogarty Accelerate Scholarships - The Literature Centre - Western Australia Institute of Education Research https://fogartyedfutures.org.au

  • Investment Committee

    2022 - 2023

    Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) is a learning community of innovative givers committed to accelerating equity in the Bay Area through grantmaking and impact investing.

  • Indo-Pacific Non-Resident Fellow

    2020 - 2021

    The Perth USAsia Centre is Australia's leading think-tank for the strengthening of relationships between Australia, the Indo-Pacific and the United States. The Centre is a non-partisan, not-for-profit institution located at The University of Western Australia (UWA). The Centre focuses on geo-political issues, policy development and building a strategic affairs community across government, business and academia. Since the Centre’s inception we have collaborated with over 120 different partners, to host 500 events across 17 cities in 8 countries engaging a world-class community of over 13,000 attendees. - Indo-Pacific Regional Focus - Australia-Indo-Pacific-US Relations - 2020 US Election - Focus on Indonesia

2009 - 2013

  • VP of Business Growth & Innovation

    2009 - 2013

    Columbia River Economic Development Council (CREDC) is a non-profit leading economic development in the Portland Metro region of the Pacific Northwest. My role was to facilitate partnerships with over 40 public and private stakeholders for investment in startups, small business, and industry during the Great Recession through R&D grants, international trade/finance support, manufacturing innovation and entrepreneurship development programs to increase global competitiveness and job creation.

  • Director of Global Business Development & NA Operations

    2000 - 2009

    Global consumer products manufacturing corporation with 7 subsidiaries on 3 continents. Over the course of 9 years, held senior management roles in marketing, business development, supply chain management, M&A and continuous improvement in the US, Asia and Europe. Major projects included 3 acquisitions, IPO, ERP systems implementation, distribution operations setup/closures, lean manufacturing initiatives and CEO succession planning.

2000 - 2000

  • Education Product Management (EPM) Coordinator

    2000 - 2000

    Global enterprise software and data mining company. Role in Product Marketing included Knowledge Transfers/Training Plans, Life-Cycle Readiness Management process & internal customer courseware rollout. Major project was the WebEx pilot for online product training to global salesforce.

1998 - 1999

  • Public Relations Associate

    1998 - 1999

    First high-tech PR agency exclusively representing Silicon Valley dot coms in the 1990s. Responsible for events planning (launch, tour, promotion, press briefings) press kit management, and competitor and pre-IPO industry analysis.